Produce Sales Associate

Weis Markets•Dingmans Ferry, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

WEIS is looking for a Produce Sales Associate who values respect, understanding, appreciation, teamwork, and growth. This role is responsible for maintaining a well-stocked and appealing produce department to meet customer demands. Key duties include interacting with customers, handling special requests, unpacking and stocking merchandise, ensuring product freshness and proper pricing, and maintaining the salad bar and cut fruit/vegetable sections. The associate will also assist in building displays, completing product logs, managing spoiled or damaged products, and ensuring department sanitation in compliance with health and OSHA requirements. The position may involve assisting with deliveries and baling cardboard, with training provided.

Requirements

Completed or working towards a High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED).
No prior experience required.
Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without an accommodation.
Utilization of all company provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE), including but not limited to cut resistant gloves, safety cutters, company sponsored footwear.

Responsibilities

Keeps produce department well stocked and appealing to meet customer demands.
Smiles and greets customers, answers customer questions, handles special requests such as filling orders for fruit baskets and resolves customer concerns promptly in a polite and professional manner.
Unpacks cartons and crates of merchandise, cleans and trims produce, stocks area with new merchandise.
Ensures merchandise is in saleable condition which requires rotating stock to ensure freshness.
Ensures that product has been properly priced with correct signage.
Maintains salad bar and cut fruit/vegetable as needed.
Assists in building attractive displays.
Accurately completes necessary product logs.
Handles spoiled and damaged product, new items and discontinued items accordingly to company policy.
Responsible for general sanitation in the department.
Follows cleaning schedules and department guidelines to ensure that work areas, equipment, counters, display cases, etc. are well maintained, clean and meet all health and OSHA requirements.
Disposes of trash properly.
Assists in minimizing shrink and controlling damages.
Reports shortages and overages to manager.
May assist with receiving, unloading, checking-in, breaking-down, and storing deliveries through operation of power jack or hand jack if properly trained.
May assist with baling cardboard or other related duties if properly trained.
Ensures smooth function of department and store by cooperating with co-workers and superiors.
Responsible to continuously improve job performance.
Responsible for utilization of all company provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE).
May also be called upon to assist in other departments.